Painting with Toddlers

Home-educating with younger siblings around can be complicated! It can be tricky keeping little ones occupied while teaching siblings, or explaining to toddlers why they need to leave their siblings…

Lego as a Teaching Tool for Home-Ed

For home-educators, the ways to use Lego in homeschool lessons are limitless. Lego can be used to teach a wide range of skills, can be used with all age groups,…

How to use homeschooler’s questions to plan lessons

Google the questions homeschoolers ask! It takes seconds and can send them (and you) down rabbit holes of learning. Learning how to research traditionally, using reference books and talking to…

Home-Ed Study Weeks

Home education, just like school, can at times become repetitive and it's always good to shake it up and make sure the process of learning continues to be enjoyable for…

Safe Surfing

It is entirely possible to home educate without using internet sources. For years homeschoolers have educated their children by relying on books for lesson materials and education resources, however now,…

Offering homeschooled students choices

Lesson Choices If you put students in charge of setting lesson objectives they’ll be instantly more engaged with the lesson. Whether it’s offering two different styles of worksheets, the choice…

Audiobooks for Home Education – Autumn 2022

Audiobooks are fantastic teaching material for home education. Easy to use in a variety of lesson formats, audiobooks are easily accessible lesson content to use at home or on the…

Structured Unschooling

When you start reading about home education it quickly becomes overwhelming. Methodologies, terminology, styles, supplies, and curricula. Project-based, school-based, course-based, student-led; Flexible homeschooling? There seems to be so much you…

TV as a Teaching Tool

Screen time is one of the most contentious phrases when it comes not just to education but to parenting in general. How much is too much? Will TV rot their…

Using Audiobooks in Home Education

The purpose of writing is to transfer thoughts, stories or information via words to someone else. Once written on paper and passed to us, we call the process of absorbing…